Tate Modern, 19.30, Sunday 27 May - 15.00, Monday 28 May 2007

To mark the twentieth anniversary of his death in 1987, Andy Warhol’s (1928-87) first ever film, Sleep 1963, is screened throughout the night, accompanied by the legendary musical performance that inspired it. The five and a half-hour film will be looped to provide over eighteen hours of continuous viewing, and is a meditative study of the poet John Giorno asleep in his apartment. Warhol was inspired to complete the film with a new repetitive editing structure after attending the writer and composer John Cage’s (1912-92) historic 1963 performance at the Pocket Theatre in New York of the French composer Erik Satie’s (1866-1925) epic repetitive work for piano, Vexations, 1893. This transfixing event at Tate Modern brings together two artistic landmarks from a momentous year, and will be a contemplation on stillness, repetition, time and death.

This landmark event is accompanied by a panel discussion about the relationships between Warhol, Cage and Satie.

The concept for the event came from London Consortium PhD student Lauren A Wright, and, with support from the Consortium, has been developed by her in collaboration with Tate Modern as part of the Tate Long Weekend. Full details and booking information are available on the Tate website.